The Completed Diaphanous Geithner Project, 10'h x 4'w x 2'd

HOW I MADE THE DIAPHANOUS GEITHNER

End of Baroque Series and Beginning of Diaphanous Geithner Project

John Dingler posing in front of one of the Baroque Series works at the RAP exhibit; a close-up w/arms folded; a pict of Timothy Geithner shaking Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd's hand which will serve as the basis for my model for the Diaphanous Geithner Project.

Materials and Processes

Preparatory sketch, aluminum rod bent to shape, tools & nails, and a typically reinforced joint. These are what I used to make the bust. I used 1/4" Aluminum rod purchased from Klure and Harris, Riverside for the framework. I reinforced the frame with three 1/8" rods. It's extraordinarily flimsy, floppy, like a big blade of grass. When a neighboring artist pick it up, he used more muscle than he needed and jerked it up, thinking that it weighed way more; It's large. I had to reinforce each of the four joints with fillets made from steel sheet, and pour resin into each to lock them into place. It then took me about six weeks to figure out the right glue to use for the fabric. I settled on SuperGlue, the most liquid form, not the gell-like. The brand did not matter, and then to apply lines of automotive pin striping tape. I used black, 1/4" for the outer edge and 1/8" and narrower for the lines within the area of head and body. So far, I regard this projects as a drawing. Once finished, it will be a construction approx. 9' high and about 8' wide once the third element -- a hand that waves -- is included.

Preliminary image of the US Treasury Secretary, Diaphonous Timothy Geithner, taken from internet, modified, decolorized to clarify the edges, and resized to fit into opaque projector.

The image of Geithner already having been projected, I bent an aluminum rod around nails used to mold the outer shape.

Close up of nails for the pattern, hammers, pliers, & RR track segments to hold the rod temporarily in place.

Preparatory Drawing for the entablature and bust

After completing the two facings, I had to draw the plinth consisting of an entablature supported by a Doric colonnade, on which they would rest, using Photoshop.

John Dingler: Computer generated illustration of one side of the Diaphanous Geithner project.

John Dingler: Computer generated illustration of one side of the Diaphanous Geithner project. Both facings set into their own plinths.

I am now working on the two Doric order entablatures consisting Doric columns, architrave, & freeze. How to take elements (entablature, cornices, color schemes, acroteria, antefixes, column order, etc.) from a Classical temple and adapt them to the plinth while making these fit visually, is the current problem.

Small Diaphanous vs big Diaphanous

Scintillating fabric on Diaphanous Geithner.

Acroteria on a tomb.

Acroteria on a bldg.

Miniature paintings for the entablature, Metopes - Side A, People Doing Stuff

John Dingler.
Screen shot of designs which I will place into the metopes, where the horses are in the above image to the right.

John Dingler's Diaphanous Geithner Nearly Complete at 70%.

Investigating color combinations for the 9 columns.

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The completed Diaphanous Geithner project in moviette form

I am seeking a bank manager who would display Diaphanous Geithner in the lobby. If you know of any, let me know

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